Made myself a second table extension, just need my ball lock pins to arrive and I can start using them right away
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Nice work.
As for the forklift issue - could have rented a tele-handler/rough terrian forklift. Lower height, does not rely on a mast to raise the object. plus the telescoping gives you the option to extend out and place where you can’t drive.
If / when I leave my current place of employment, that is what I will have to get to unload my mobile fabshop from the company trailer into my garage.
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Never used one before, but looking it up I can see how that would’ve been useful (and more expensive lol).
I’m only forklift certified, so I would’ve only looked at renting one of those. The time window would’ve made it tricky as I don’t know how accurate Sunbelt Rentals is with filling the time slot?
Are they vastly different compared to using a forklift?
Don’t know crap about milling, but is it possibly to mill out 4140 tool steel on the MR1?
should be possible. I just machined CPM MagnaCut a couple minutes ago.
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I’ll watch that video after my Zoom meeting!
I ask because I’ll need to find someone to mill out a punch for me for my press brake. Current one is made of 4140 tool steel so I figured I’d go with something similar.
Telehandler has a larger turning radius than a forklift.
Forklift has larger ceiling height requirement.
For a street, to uphill driveway, and 2 car garage with a 7ft tall door, I’d take the Telehandler and some skates if I had to maneuver the object around once inside if the clearance was tight.
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Maybe I’ll look into renting one if I opt to buy a laser table down the road, or get something like a Fastcut or something different.
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Yea that seems like a good upgrade. I have some of my larger parts that dont nest well on 2x4. End up with odd space left over that I can fill with my smaller brackets, so now I end up with a huge pile of my small brackets. More than I need. Between that and the increased rapid speed my efficiency would go way up.
This kinda snowballed pretty fast. I have been painting everything with an hvlp sprayer but I think I’m going to farm that all out to a powder coater. Looked into doing it myself but I hate finish work. Plus thats another 3-5k investment with a booth and oven. I was getting parts lasered and finishing them but then I quickly turned into a painter not a fabricator.
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some more footage of the 3D machining of MagnaCut on the MR-1
Sorry guys I just realized this is the Crossfire Projects thread. lol
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Paint, powdercoat, that’s stuff I’ll never touch. The hell with that.
Not going to ruin what are structurally sound welds, precisely cut parts, and perfectly square assemblies for a shit rattle can job or powder coating with no experience 
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Stool I made for a repeat customer got powder coated last week, forgot to add a picture. He said the pictures don’t do it justice and I believe it.
Metallic red or something like that.
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Pretty sure my 24” X axis gantry is bent. Was noticing some inconsistent bent parts. They weren’t hitting the backgauge correctly. My table is heavily molded, but this is on the factory langmuir X axis. One side has a slight convex and the other has a concave bend to it across ~20”. Gonna have to put a straight edge on it tomorrow and see what’s up. Anyone think of anything else that could be causing this?
A friend was cleaning out his garage and gave me his vintage Onkyo TX-2000 receiver. Perfect shop amp for my estate sale Klipsch Forte speakers. Added an old Belkin bluetooth receiver and finally have some great shop sound, I’m in $12.50.
We want everything on wheels in the shop (except the mill and the lathe). Fixtured up a little bench grinder stand with Vevor leveling casters.
Nice little project this afternoon while these filled the airwaves.
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A couple projects that were cut on the weekend and finish today.
The one bird sign is 3 ft tall plus the tubs. And the owl the wall hanger is probably 22 in tall.
The little puzzle piece was actually hard to cut that thin in 3/8
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I sent my shop Amp in for a full chassis rebuild a few months ago. i’ll be into it close to $1000 including the original cost. but its worth 1.5x to 2x that… you cant beat less than 0.1% THD at 350W RMS and 750W peak per channel.
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impressive!
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